Hi everyone. What with the rebirth of the project I decided to sign up for the forums. And I have questions!

I'm on KDE 4.4.5, but of course I'd much rather be on version 4.5.1. Unfortunately it was released post-freeze and it isn't even in the experimental repos yet so I am at a loss. So what is the best way of getting hold of it? Is compiling the only way? Would it better to wait for it to appear in experimental instead?

qt-kde.debian.met gives says that you must aptitude.
Isn't that against the "rules"? Can we achieve the same results with apt?
Besides that, the
aptitude -t experimental-snapshots full-upgrade
wants to remove a lot of packages, including mySql server.
Is there a replacement or I should just wait?

You need to be completely up-to-date before activating this repository.
After that, activate the repository, pin it if you like and issue again a normal dist-upgrade with the -t option as shown, so: apt-get dist-upgrade -t experimental-snapshots
You absolutely don't need aptitude for that…

_________________MfG. DonKult
"I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones." ~ The Doctor

about the pinning: since there is no /etc/apt/preferences file, I just created a new one in /etc/apt/preferences.d folder, is that correct?

You are my personal hero now, yeap, that is completely correct.

So, which mysql-server do you mean? There is a mysql-server package and one for -5.0 and 5.1 -- the later is the current while the first of the two should be fine to go (only in stable, removed from testing/unstable). Check that you have no holds and see in the old forum for mysql-transition if you experience problems.

_________________MfG. DonKult
"I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones." ~ The Doctor

Hi Xiyizi, welcome to the forums and congratulations on being my first moderated thread and first thread in the experimental section

This KDE 4.5.1 repository is named experimental-snapshots for a reason. Please feel free to discuss it to your hearts content, but in the context of this "experimental" section, rather than in the "supported" section of the forums.

about the pinning: since there is no /etc/apt/preferences file, I just created a new one in /etc/apt/preferences.d folder, is that correct?

You are my personal hero now, yeap, that is completely correct.

So, which mysql-server do you mean? There is a mysql-server package and one for -5.0 and 5.1 -- the later is the current while the first of the two should be fine to go (only in stable, removed from testing/unstable). Check that you have no holds and see in the old forum for mysql-transition if you experience problems.

Ok, upgraded the mysql server from 5.0 to 5.1, ignored the apt-listbugs warnings, did the dist-uprade and everything worked like a charm (so far)!